Banner Day

Today was banner day: it is the first day that I have attempted to draw since 2011, a rather startling truth, even for me, the victim. I mention that date because I spent a couple of hours last night and today going through three portfolios of the best of my work and the last date of the last batch was 2011. Four fucking years, down the drain as far as drawing is concerned. In my obit thy will probably call them "the lost years." It has been a long haul back to normality or a semblance of normality. The "benign tremor" seems to have backed off as I did not have much trouble controlling my lines. When I saw the drawing I called "Atomic Scarecrows,"which is a black and white drawing, I saw a possibility to add a little color to the image. I was right; the additions I made enlivened the drawing as I thought it might. Sizie was flabbergasted to see me drawing when she came home with the boys. She's been hoping it would happen soon. I put aside a couple of other drawing I'll work on tomorrow or soon. Starting drawing again is another reason to see the last 10 days as pretty special...

As I looked through all the drawings, I was very impressed, it constitutes a bloc of very good work, consistent within its aims, and it's a shame the work isn't out there being seen and appreciated.